[Serdev] auth_radius module problems in pre39

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at portaone.com
Fri Jul 11 21:00:06 UTC 2003


Any progress on this?

-Maxim

Jan Janak wrote:

> Maxim,
> 
> I'll comment it on Thursday, I am terribly busy now.
> 
> 
>   Jan.
> 
> On 08-07 22:58, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>>Folks,
>>
>>Following is the list of problems we encountered in the auth_radius 
>>module found in the 0.8.11pre39 snapshot:
>>
>>1. Nonce validation apparently doesn't work. I've verified that the 
>>nonce in client's authenticated request is the same as one send by ser 
>>in the Unauthorized reply, but check_nonce() fails, I am getting 
>>"Invalid nonce value received, very suspicious" in the log and the auth 
>>fails. I've commented check_nonce() call and it now works like a charm.
>>
>>2. For some unclear reason, auth module now compares hostname in the 
>>request URI with realm provided in the appropriate auth header and 
>>rejects auth if they do not match. This basically makes realm argument 
>>in *_challenge() and *_authorize() functions totally useless as user 
>>will be unable to select anything but SER's IP or SER's hostname there. 
>>IMO this restriction have to be removed or at least conditionalised on 
>>some config variable.
>>
>>My auth-related config looks like the following, I did not set any 
>>auth-related parameters in the config (secret and so on), leaving them 
>>on their default values.
>>
>>        if (!radius_www_authorize("")) {
>>                www_challenge("", "0");
>>                break;
>>        };
>>
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>-Maxim
>>
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